Setting an Environment Variable to the "14 Hive"

What SharePoint pro (developer or admin) does not hate the fact that the path to the root SharePoint directory is so dang long?

The solution? Create an environment variable mapped to the location.

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN"

On Windows 7 right click "Computer" and select properties or in the search field type "System" and under Control Panel select "System". Click Advanced System Settings and Environment Variables. Click "New" under user variables. Then enter the alias you wish to give the path in Variable name (I normaly use just 14) and copy and paste the value in the code block above into the Variable value field. Start a new CMD session and test by typing

C:\> echo %14%

or open a run box and type %14%.